PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RHETORIC

 

Monday

  • Who
    are the electoral candidates?
  • What
    issues do you think the candidates should be speaking about and why?
  • How
    do these issues that affect you?

Tuesday

  • Conferences
    with Group 1 about narrative papers.

Wednesday

  • Define terms from reading.
  • What
    rhetorical strategies are being used to bring issues across?
  • Reading:
    “Problems based on irrelevant information” from Discovering Arguments
    (pgs 348-56)

Thursday

  • Read:
    “Online Research” from The Thomson Handbook (289-311)
  • Research
    a candidate.
  • Meet in WTHR 214 at regular class time.

Friday:

  • Conferences
    with Group 1 about narrative papers.

 

Problems based on irrelevant info

The reading was intersting to me, because it told me of quite a few ways that a person uses to base their information. The Guilt by Association and the Ad hominem were the most interesting to me. As I read the reading, I thought of ways that people use these things in everyday life.

Van